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This episode was cool. It was great to see Ash bring back Bulbasaur, Charizard, and Squirtle for a bonding/hiking experience to relive moments together. The momemnts together were awesome to see and at times very funny. It was cool to see that Charizard had learned Steel Wing attack. It was odd to see Ash forget that Dusclops cannot be hit with Seismic Toss, and Charizard paid the price for it. It was cool to see that Ash's Squirtle was bigger than May's Squirtle, which isn't surprising.

So I was re-watching this episode and is it just me, or is there something wrong with the way the characters look in this episode?

Just a relatively bad animation team, nothing more to it. I wish they would try to assign all important episodes to the best animators, the amount of fillers animated by the likes of Iwane is so annoying. But I guess it makes them more worth watching.

I LOVED the first half of this episode ...... It was a treat to see Ash’s Kanto Pokemon trio(Charizard, Bulbasaur, Squirtle) again, it really brought back the nostalgia of the Kanto saga. It's funny when Ash’s pokemon were all fighting each other at the beginning, I was surprised when Charizard was reaveled to learn Steel Wing.
It's a nice moment when Ash and his Pokemon are remembering their past experiences in Kanto, but Team Rocket spying ruined the moment.
Team Rocket managed to get Pikachu, but it's cool when Ash followed them on his Charizard.
Heating and Cooling the balloon by using Flamethrower and Water gun was a smart move, it worked very well and the Balloon crashed.
The combined attack of Charizard, Pikachu, Bulbasaur and Squirtle was awesome, Team Rocket really had to pay for what they did. xD
The second half of this episode was disappointing, Dusclops's Mean Look/Confuse Ray gave Charizard some trouble ..... and then Ash gave Charizard a stupid command of using Seismic Toss on Dusclops, which didn't work.
Dusclops uses Shadow Punch on Charizard and defeats him, then the episode ends with a cliffhanger.
Ash shouldn't have forgotten that Dusclops is a Ghost Pokemon.

Nice battle with Jindai although sometimes Satoshi's strategy has quite major flaws in my opinion. Lizardon should not have been taken out that easily. It is good that Jindai did not use all three legendary rocks into a 4 on 4 battle. Otherwise I think Satoshi has no chance to win because one is already quite enough trouble.

Poor episode, honestly: one of the worst to come out of AG-- 67.5/100.

Animation is horrendous and off, so that's one thing.

As for the English dub, well, Sarah Natochenny as Ash in this one is just beyond horrible, and some of the lines they give her made it that much worse: literally the worst English voice Ash has had to date, tied with the one in "Gettin' Twiggy with It!" for me.

I loved seeing Oak again and May's Squirtle's minor interaction with Ash's Squirtle was cute. I liked that Ash had a flashback to how he ended up with his Kanto Starters and TR was so naive to mess with Ash when he had Charizard with him tbh. I both screamed and giggled when Ash's Charizard lost to Brandon's Dusclops though. I blame Ash for that mistake.

A meh episode.Seeing the four Pokemon fight and Ash getting hurt in the process really irked me.At least Charizard learned Steel Wing,which was cool.Didn't like Will-o-Wisp being shown as an attack move.Ash forgetting Seismic Toss being useless against Dusclops was dumb.
4/10

Rewatching this episode for nostalgia.... oh my god the voice acting and animation are both atrocious. Who animated this episode? I made it through 6 minutes before I couldn't handle any more Microsoft Paint level animation any more....

Originally Posted by An00bis

Just watch; there will be an egg at the end of Sinnoh that Dawn will give to Ash!

The nostalgia hit me hard here when Satoshi's Fushigidane, Zenigame, and Lizardon returned for the battle against Pyramid King Jindai. Speaking of which, it wasn't fair when Lizardon messed up and fainted against Jindai's Samayooru. Satoshi was responsible for that thoughtless Seismic Toss.

It was nice to see Bulbasaur, Charizard, and Squirtle again. It really brought back memories from 1998-1999 and also memories from the Johto League. The only thing I didn't like about this episode was the animation. :/

Well this was a pretty great episode for reminiscing before the final match even if there were a few things nagging at me, including how Charizard's expressions seemed to be missing their mark. He certainly didn't look as cool as he did in earlier episodes.